{"id":6547,"date":"2018-07-07T19:30:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T02:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6547"},"modified":"2018-07-07T19:36:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T02:36:46","slug":"july-7-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6547","title":{"rendered":"July 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>June 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I managed to get a close-up of the  <strong><em>Pyrausta californicalis <\/em><\/strong>caterpillar that Val<strong> <\/strong>  found in his garden yesterday:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 396px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"Pyrausta la.JPG\" originalwidth=\"766\" originalheight=\"1200\" setheight=\"595\" setwidth=\"380\" hasheight=\"false\" style=\"width: 380px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Pyrausta-la.jpg\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Pyrausta californicalis <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Also, a couple of caterpillars that I found on cottonwood at Rithet&#8217;s Bog today:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"Nycteola.JPG\" originalwidth=\"1185\" originalheight=\"871\" width=\"536.8\" height=\"394.55932489451476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Nycteola.jpg\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Nycteola <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Nolidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeff Gaskin writes:&nbsp; Last Tuesday,&nbsp; July 03, Kirsten Mills and I drove along Nanaimo River Road;&nbsp; between kms 9 and 14 we saw at least 8  <strong>Clodius Parnassians<\/strong> and 1 <strong>Grey Hairstreak<\/strong>.&nbsp; Also, there we saw many  <strong>Lorquin&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong>Admirals, Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong>, and some  <strong>Pale Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr sends photographs of three <strong><em>Lacinipolia strigicollis<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>&nbsp;  <\/em><\/strong>from Metchosin.&nbsp; Thanks to Libby Avis for identification.&nbsp; One might guess that the bluer individuals are fresher &#8211; though the one without blue seems to be in very good condition, so maybe we need to guess again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 541px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"P1100449 Lacinipolia strigicollis.JPG\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"943\" width=\"536.8\" height=\"421.8353333333333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/P1100449-Lacinipolia-strigicollis.jpg\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Lacinipolia strigicollis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 554px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"P1100451 Lacinipolia strigicollis.JPG\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"983\" width=\"536.8\" height=\"439.72866666666664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/P1100451-Lacinipolia-strigicollis.jpg\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Lacinipolia strigicollis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"P1100448 Lacinipolia strigicollis.JPG\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"821\" width=\"536.8\" height=\"367.2606666666666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/P1100448-Lacinipolia-strigicollis.jpg\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Lacinipolia strigicollis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes that at 6:45 pm this evening there was a  <strong>Painted Lady<\/strong> on the Mount Tolmie reservoir, and three more near the Jeffery Pine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; More tomorrow &#8211; we have a backlog, which is a nice thing to have.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 7 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I managed to get a close-up of the Pyrausta californicalis caterpillar that Val found in his garden yesterday: &nbsp; Pyrausta californicalis (Lep.: Crambidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Also, a couple of caterpillars that I found on cottonwood at Rithet&#8217;s Bog today: &nbsp; Nycteola sp. (Lep.: Nolidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}